Mrs. Warchol's Art Blog: December 2009

Perspective Assignment- Due 1/4

DUE: MONDAY JANUARY 4th

Your goal over the upcoming vacation:

Locate or photograph at least TWO reference images that could provide the basis for an acrylic painting.

Your images should:

•Include architectural structures and space showing the use of one or two-point PERSPECTIVE.

• Be photos taken by you or someone in your family –go out with your digital camera and photograph buildings or a location that you find interesting – think about barns, houses, cityscapes, businesses, industrial places. Look for family vacation photos that could work well.

Please DO NOT rely on the internet as a source for your references! Subject matter is everywhere you look.

On Monday 1/4 you must have the image with you! It is okay to bring it on a jump/flash drive or camera memory card. We can then print them in color during class.

Extra Credit-Due Wednesday 12/23

Please go to the same websites listed for the midterm practice essay. Choose 3 different drawings and/or paintings (2-D work only) that exhibit one or two-point perspective and print them, grayscale is okay. First, identify whether it is one or two-point perspective. Then with a brightly colored marker or highlighter please identify and label the horizon line, vanishing point and orthogonal lines. Staple them together if they are on separate sheets of paper and write your name on top. Extra credit is worth 50 points and is due on Wednesday 12/23.

Midterm Essay Practice

Due: December18th

This is a practice essay to prepare you for the midterm. The midterm essay will be in the same, Four Stage Model, format.

Directions: Go to one of the websites listed below. FIND & PRINT out a painting, drawing or sculpture you want to write about. Use the Four Stage Model, see directions below, to write your essay. Be sure to include all the parts asked for in the essay, read the directions carefully. The essay must be hand written, pay attention to spelling and grammar. Hand in the print out of your artwork with your essay.

Websites: wwar.com/categories/artists

www.artnet.com

www.ibiblio.org

Four Stage Model:

1. Introduction: You are to describe the things about the artwork you can see, name and describe with certainty. I should be able to know what work you are describing by the narrative. (5 Points)

2. Body Paragraph: In this paragraph, analyze the composition using at least 3 elements and 3 principles of Art/Design. Do not just name the elements & principles, but also describe how they are used. Keep it factual/ (5 Points)

3. Body Paragraph: In this paragraph, interpret what is happening or explain what you think the artist is trying to express. Make sure to explain why you are making this statement based on what the artist did in the work.

(5 Points)

4. Concluding Paragraph: You are to make a personal aesthetic judgment, an emotional response, about the work you have written about. Base your judgment on five of the following specific concepts listed below. Briefly describe each of the five points you choose to address. Do not introduce new information here. (2 Points each, 10 Points total)

1. Craftsmanship

2. Design Quality

3. Expressiveness

4. Personal Response

5. Originality

6. A comparison with other work

7. Use of medium or technique

Printmaking Unit

These are examples from our Printmaking Puzzle Unit. The students created multiple prints with different color combinations. They they created a puzzle, cut out their prints in the shape of that puzzle, and then collaged pieces back into the original composition. One print from each student is currently on display in the art wing at Sutherland High School.